diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Dumper/XmlDumper.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Dumper/XmlDumper.php
index 3306c4b1a643..c793e9aed0f3 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Dumper/XmlDumper.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Dumper/XmlDumper.php
@@ -191,6 +191,10 @@ private function addService($definition, $id, \DOMElement $parent)
             $service->appendChild($factory);
         }
 
+        if ($definition->isAbstract()) {
+            $service->setAttribute('abstract', 'true');
+        }
+
         if ($callable = $definition->getConfigurator()) {
             $configurator = $this->document->createElement('configurator');
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Dumper/XmlDumperTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Dumper/XmlDumperTest.php
index 72ae5897204f..687ba1efcb55 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Dumper/XmlDumperTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Dumper/XmlDumperTest.php
@@ -184,4 +184,12 @@ public function testDumpInlinedServices()
 
         $this->assertEquals(file_get_contents(self::$fixturesPath.'/xml/services21.xml'), $dumper->dump());
     }
+
+    public function testDumpAbstractServices()
+    {
+        $container = include self::$fixturesPath.'/containers/container_abstract.php';
+        $dumper = new XmlDumper($container);
+
+        $this->assertEquals(file_get_contents(self::$fixturesPath.'/xml/services_abstract.xml'), $dumper->dump());
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Fixtures/containers/container_abstract.php b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Fixtures/containers/container_abstract.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9622a273d380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Fixtures/containers/container_abstract.php
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?php
+
+use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
+
+$container = new ContainerBuilder();
+
+$container
+    ->register('foo', 'Foo')
+    ->setAbstract(true)
+;
+
+return $container;
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Fixtures/xml/services_abstract.xml b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Fixtures/xml/services_abstract.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..97e5ce419bef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Tests/Fixtures/xml/services_abstract.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<container xmlns="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services http://symfony.com/schema/dic/services/services-1.0.xsd">
+  <services>
+    <service id="foo" class="Foo" abstract="true"/>
+  </services>
+</container>